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Crunch Network
Wasting Time With The Joneses
Starting a company is like attempting to bend the world to your will. There are obstacles at every turn, and it’s never easy. Fundraising is one of those huge obstructions. Not only is the process of finding the true believers akin to finding the proverbial needle in the haystack, it’s also incredibly distracting. Read More
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MobileIron Drops 6% After Beating On Revenue And Profit In Q2
After reporting an earnings beat earlier today, shares of mobile device management firm MobileIron fell roughly six percent during regular trading. The firm reported $34.8 million in revenue, resulting in an adjusted loss of $0.25 per share. Investors had expected $33.68 million in revenue, and adjusted profit of negative $0.27 per share. The firm beat on both revenue, and profit. As noted… Read More
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LinkedIn Beats Analyst Estimates With $712M In Q2 Revenue
LinkedIn’s earnings today beat analyst expectations in dramatic fashion, sending the stock up as much as 14% in extended trading after it released its second-quarter results. The company reported earnings of 55 cents per share and revenue of $712 million. Analysts estimated that the company would bring in 30 cents per share on $680.3 million in revenue. However, the company said it… Read More
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ScopeAR Beams An Expert To You Through Augmented Reality
Everyone needs an expert sometimes; a helping hand to point you in the right direction so you can get the job done. Maybe you’re a mechanic working on an exotic car. You know everything there is to know about cars in general — but only a handful of people really know this car. Alas, they’re all on the other side of the planet. Read More
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NewSchools Venture Fund Launches An Ed Tech Accelerator With A Focus on Science Learning
NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization that has backed more than 400 charter schools and educational technology for more than 15 years, has just opened a new startup accelerator with an initial focus on science. They’re offering $1.5 million in grants, and their first project is a Science Learning Challenge. That’s for companies and nonprofits that are… Read More
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KPCB’s John Doerr Is Coming To Disrupt SF
John Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 25 years ago, but it didn’t take him nearly so long to cement his status as a legend in the industry. Doerr’s career in tech began in 1974 at the chipmaker Intel, where he held roles in engineering, marketing, management and sales. He later founded a software company called Silicon Compilers and… Read More
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Fashion Startup Everlane Arrives On Mobile With An App Catering To Its Biggest Fans
Everlane, the fashion shopping site focused on selling high-quality apparel at lower prices than traditional designer retail, has today made the move to mobile. The company has now launched its first native smartphone application with the launch of Everlane on iOS, which allows shoppers to browse and buy its luxury items right from their phone. Read More
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YC-Backed Ironclad Is An Automated Legal Assistant For Companies
Launching out of the latest YC class, Ironclad is an automated service to help companies draft, organize and execute common legal paperwork. Expensive legal bills are often an unwelcome reality for young startups. Lawyers charge hundreds of dollars an hour, but are often a company’s only option for correctly preparing things like financial documents and sales contracts. Read More
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“UAVbnb” DroneBase Is DJI And Accel’s First SkyFund Investment
Drone manufacturing king DJI has a plot to expand its unmanned aerial empire. It’s teamed up with prestigious VC Accel to launch the $10 million SkyFund, which invests in companies expanding the drone market — and DJI’s sizable slice of it. Today SkyFund revealed to me that its first investment goes to DroneBase, which lets any business rent a drone and pilot. Read More
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Facebook Won’t Be An ISP, But Built An Internet-Shooting Drone For Carriers
Facebook today detailed plans for its solar-powered, laser-connected, Internet-beaming Aquila drones, but confirmed it’s not going to compete with Internet Service Providers. “Our intention is not to be an operator” Facebook’s VP of engineering Jay Parikh told an assembly of reporters. “We’re not going to be ‘Facebook ISP.'” Read More
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Is Your City Lazy? Human Knows
Activity apps are all the rage right now thanks in part to any number of smartwatches and bands you can wear, as well as Apple’s HealthKit initiative. There’s a lot of activity going on out there, and we’re finally tracking the data that goes along with it. Read More
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Pixar Alum-Led ToyTalk Teams Up With Mattel To Let Kids Chat With “Thomas The Tank Engine” And Friends
Though some adults still feel awkward about having conversations with their smartphone’s mobile assistant, like Siri, kids today seem to have no qualms about chattering with our virtual helpers. My daughter, for example, thinks of Siri as just another one of iPad’s toys. She also regularly instructs me to “ask Google” for the answer, and hits up our smart speaker… Read More
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Google Gives Android Developers New Beta-Testing Options
Google has long given Android developers the option to manage closed beta tests from the Google Play Developer Console. To join these betas, users had to become part of a Google+ community or Google Group, however. That was obviously not the most intuitive way of joining a beta program, but at the time, this idea fit in well with Google’s obsession with all things Google+. Starting… Read More
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A Silly Look Inside The Mario Maker Level Hackathon At Facebook HQ
The latest perk of working at Facebook: getting to play the new Nintendo game Super Mario Maker a month before it comes out. Yesterday, Facebook hosted a hackathon where 100 employees built their own levels using Mario Maker. The game lets you make your own obstacle courses for the plumber using elements from Mario 1, 3, and Super Mario World. Teams competed for whose level was best. We… Read More
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Google Adds 8 Carriers To Its Android For Work Partner Ecosystem
When Google officially launched its Android for Work program earlier this year, it had already signed up a wide range of partners to help bring Android for Work to market. Today, it is expanding this program by adding a new device manufacturer and — for the first time — carriers to its partner ecosystem. Read More
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Pinterest Is Working With A Startup Called Paradigm To Foster Diversity
Diversity is a hot-button issue, and an issue that many tech companies can’t seem to figure out how to solve. That’s where Paradigm comes in. Paradigm works with fast-growing companies like Slack and Pinterest to help them identify where the biggest barriers to diversity are coming into play, Paradigm Founder and CEO Joelle Emerson tells me. It does this through both quantitative… Read More
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Crunch Network
The Argument For Investing In True Fan Engagement
Following the launches of brand-centric services on sites like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+, social media was the place for businesses to acquire new users and engage their fans. This seemed like an efficient way to get exposure: Businesses could essentially “rent” a spot on Facebook, much like a small shoe brand could rent a store in the mall to take advantage of… Read More
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YC-Backed Captain401 Wants To Make Creating A 401k Easier For Businesses
Captain401, a service that helps small businesses set up a 401k, is launching out of Y Combinator today. The goal of Captain401 is to make managing 401ks as simple as other services are for other functions within companies — and in a more digitally focused manner like Zenefits or Zenpayroll. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Cryptocurrency Research Group
- $3.0M Grant
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Technology
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Applica
- $100K Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Pocket Money
- $100K Angel
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Personal Finance, Teaching STEM Concepts, Kids, Task Management, Education ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Formula XO
- $300K Convertible Note
- HQ: Sterling, Virginia
- Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics
- Investors: Not available
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Keynected
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Apps, Mobile, Social Media
- Investors: Not available
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Exicon
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
- Categories: Apps, Mobile, SaaS, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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Nobly POS - Point of Sales
- $400K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Enterprise Resource Planning, Big Data Analytics, Point of Sale, Mobile ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Stockal
- $160K Angel
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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SpotiZZ
- $11K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Photography
- Investors: Not available
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Fingertouch
- $7.1M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Advertising
- Investors: Not available
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Emerging Rule
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Juan, NA - Puerto Rico
- Categories: Governments, Education, Public Relations, Art
- Investors: Not available
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INNOVOO
- $100K Convertible Note
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Internet of Things
- Investors: Not available
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MadRat Games
- 62M INR Venture
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Games
- Investors: Not available
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Pragmatix Services
- $2.4M Venture
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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PhotoniCare
- $250K Venture
- HQ: Champaign, Illinois
- Categories: Medical Devices
- Investors: Not available
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Buddie
- $50K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Social Trademarks
- 520K EUR Seed
- HQ: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Categories: Reputation
- Investors: Not available
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PijnZorg
- $100K Seed
- HQ: Eemnes, Utrecht
- Categories: Health Care, Health and Wellness, Life Sciences
- Investors: Not available
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GrowBuddy
- Not available Convertible Note
- HQ: Denver, Colorado
- Categories: Cannabis, Mobile, Analytics, Agriculture, Software
- Investors: Not available
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Crowdcube
- 6.0M EUR Series C
- HQ: Exeter, Devon
- Categories: Crowdfunding
- Investors: Not available
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BlueVox
- $410K Seed
- HQ: Henderson, Nevada
- Categories: Telecommunications, Information Services, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
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GitHub
- $250M Series B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Software, Services, Internet
- Investors: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) ... See More
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Behalf
- $119M Series B
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Finance, Internet, Payments
- Investors: Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Victory Park Capital, MissionOG, Maverick ... See More
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Thrive Market
- $30M Series A
- HQ: Los Angeles, California
- Categories: Consumer Goods, Health and Wellness, Beauty
- Investors: Greycroft Partners, Scripps Networks Interactive, Powerplant Ventures, CAVU ... See More
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Catawiki
- $82M Series C
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Internet
- Investors: Accel Partners, Project A Ventures, Lead Edge Capital
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PicMonkey
- $41M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Curated Web
- Investors: Spectrum Equity
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Jun Group
- $28M Series A
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Facebook Applications, Mobile, Brand Marketing, Video Streaming, ... See More
- Investors: Western Technology Investment, Bridge Bank, Halyard Capital
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light
- $25M Series B
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: Photography
- Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV, Formation 8, StepStone Group, FIH Mobile ... See More
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iwoca
- $20M Series B
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Finance, FinTech
- Investors: Acton Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management S. A. (RCM), ... See More
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Droom Technology Private Limited
- $16M Series A
- HQ: Gurgaon, Haryana
- Categories: E-Commerce Platforms
- Investors: Beenos Partners, Lightbox Ventures
